Family members found their bodies in Jones' townhouse in the 7000 block of Jetty Lane in far southwest Houston.

Adams was charged with indecency with a child earlier this year, accused of touching the girl's genitals while she was lying in bed Jan. 24.

"He molested Jakaela," said Jai Francis, LaTasha Jones' brother-in-law. "This had been going on awhile, and Jakaela came forward."

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When interviewed by police about the girl's claims, Adams denied any inappropriate behavior, court records show.

After being arrested and freed on $30,000 bail in August, Adams continued to communicate with his former girlfriend and was trying to persuade her daughter to recant, Francis said. He said Adams was buying things for the girl to get her to write a letter recanting before he returned to court on the charge in January.

"He has always been a violent individual," Francis said of Adams. "It looked like he did this out of revenge."

According to a Houston Police Department spokesman, Adams shot Jones and her daughter with a pistol and then left with his 7-year-old son, Chance Adams, who had witnessed the shooting of Jakaela, his sister.

Adams was not Jakaela's father.

Threatened brother

After the shootings, Adams went to a relative's home in Missouri City, where family members became concerned when he said, "I can't take it back; I can't undo what has been done," according to court documents.

"This guy had been heavily drinking, and he's always been abusive." Francis said.

Worried about Jones, Francis and other relatives went to her home, where they found her body downstairs and that of her daughter in an upstairs bathroom, officials said.

While at the Missouri City home, Adams threatened his brother with a pistol, prompting a call to Missouri City police.

Adams was taken into custody and charged with aggravated assault in Fort Bend County.

'Goldwashed' bullets

Houston police said he was carrying a .22-caliber pistol that had two spent shells, and the bullets remaining in the gun were "goldwashed," or lead painted with a gold color.

According to the criminal complaint filed against Adams by the Harris County District Attorney's Office, investigators said that a bullet taken from the daughter's body appeared to be goldwashed, but the bullet found in her mother was too damaged to identify.

Adams remained Friday in the Fort Bend County Jail on charges of aggravated assault and felony possession of a firearm. His bail on those two charges was set at $225,000.

Chance Adams is now living with family members. A fund to help pay for his care and funeral expenses for his mother and sister has been set up under the name Chance Adams Foundation. Donations can be sent to 9654 C Katy Freeway #134, Houston, Texas 77055.